Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stream of Communist invective and charges of U.N. truce violations continued last week without letup. The Peking radio frankly admitted what the free world had suspected for weeks-that the breakdown at Kaesong was closely linked to the signing of the Japanese treaty (see INTERNATIONAL). The Reds had obviously hoped to use Korea as an instrument of blackmail at San Francisco. General Ridgway seized an obvious last chance to get the truce talks on the track again and formally suggested to the Reds that the conference site be moved to another location. In a message to Kim II Sung...
...group of Genoese financiers. The gamblers put up an 800 million-lira casino and a couple of hotels and promised to pay San Marino a cut of a million lire ($1,600) a day. The Communists piously forbade San Marinese themselves to enter the casino, relied upon a steady stream of wealthy, land-owning Italians and foreign tourists. Said San Marino's parish priest resignedly: "At first the parishioners thought the casino a scandal. Then they got used to it, for the price of furnished rooms began to rise considerably. There is hardly a family which does not have...
...week's end the crowds were already gathering. In response to manifestoes issued by the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), provincial workers were beginning to stream into the capital. Transportation by train, plane, ship or bus was free. When the great day came, free buses and taxis would be waiting at piers and railway stations. Also free to the visitors: food, drinks, futbol games, boxing matches, variety shows, movies...
...conventional planes; now with German help they proved that they could build first-rate jets. In 1947, the first really topnotch Russian fighter, the jet MIG-15, appeared. It had a high rooster-like tail, a barrel-like fuselage, and an ancient radio antenna jutting out into the slip stream. But it had swept-back wings, quick visual proof that the Russians and their German experts had been delving deep into transsonic research. It was light and maneuverable and powered by the best existing jet engine, the Rolls-Royce Nene, which the British government sold to Russia...
...their solar laboratory, astrophysicists will watch the turbulent prominences that erupt from the sun's surface to stream out in high, graceful arcs. Moving at speeds up to 500 miles a second, the glowing gas may give clues to some of the problems of rocket research and supersonic flight...